Borland Software (Nasdaq:BORL) today announced the second
release of Borland(R) Together(R) Edition for Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET, a complete design and modeling tool for developers.
This new release offers additional support for the extensive
Microsoft developer community and provides developers and
architects with an easier and more cost effective way to
collaborate, model and create software so that it better aligns
with business requirements.
Industry analysts expect adoption of Microsoft .NET
technologies to become more mainstream by 2005, especially as
companies employ the Microsoft .NET Framework and Service
Oriented Architectures (SOA) to develop Web services. The
advanced topologies of SOAs and the distributed nature of both
systems and companies themselves introduce a new level of
complexity and risk into the development environment.
Application modeling stands out as a way to manage these risks.
The importance of modeling is supported by a recent Borland
survey on the business and technology concerns surrounding
adoption of .NET technologies. The survey, conducted in March to
approximately 145 application developers, architects and IT
managers, found that respondents' number one concern was the
ability to manage and control the development process of .NET
Framework-based applications.
Survey results also highlighted development concerns around
the ability of .NET to integrate with existing IT investments,
the cost and time to retrain staff on .NET technologies, and
issues around a maturing technology. For companies with a legacy
and investment in 32-bit Windows, COM, DCOM, ActiveX and the
family of pre-.NET languages, re-use and integration of
pre-Microsoft .NET languages is essential. Borland Together for
Visual Studio .NET offers a modeling and design tool that is
both familiar, yet can be used to build .NET applications that
generate and consume Web services.
"Many forward-looking companies are already on-board with
Microsoft .NET for the competitive edge it offers, but they face
an increasingly complex application development environment,"
said Raaj Shinde, vice president and general manager for the
Borland Together Business Unit. "This is why enterprises, as
well as small and medium businesses, are looking to industry
leaders like Borland to help them reduce these development
risks. Modeling is playing a key role. Together Edition for
Visual Studio was the first advanced modeling environment to
exist for .NET technologies, and we're now building on its
success to bring more affordable modeling to the masses."
As Microsoft .NET spreads across the enterprise, companies
are finding modeling an important step in the application
lifecycle. Respondents to the Borland survey say that modeling
can help them better manage and control the application
development process, as well as:
-- Reduce the learning curve for developing applications in a
complex environment
-- Improve developers' productivity and collaboration across
the enterprise
-- Decrease application deployment time
-- Avoid the need to rework code as business requirements
evolve
"Microsoft is pleased that Borland is integrating its
Together solution with Visual Studio .NET and that Borland
continues to work with Microsoft to advance the modeling
capabilities of Borland Together Edition," said John Montgomery,
director in the .NET Developer Product Management Group at
Microsoft Corp. "As .NET technologies continue to gain traction
in the enterprise, Borland is providing our mutual customers
with an important step in managing the lifecycle of an
application."
What's New in Borland Together Edition for Visual Studio
.NET?
Borland Together Edition for Visual Studio .NET is
specifically aimed at application architects and developers, but
because it offers a "big picture" view of applications, it can
benefit everyone involved in software development. This big
picture view is advantageous to the whole development team, from
the CIO to the developer, as it draws a deeper connection
between business needs and the resulting software.
It provides insight into how the company's system
architecture maps to the various phases of application
development, which becomes increasingly important as companies
deploy more complex SOAs for web services. Some of the new
features in Borland Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio
.NET, available immediately, include:
-- Borland LiveSource(TM): Enhanced Microsoft Visual C# and
Visual Basic .NET reverse engineering capabilities provide
Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagram views of existing
source code and even the ability to generate sequence diagrams.
This helps developers understand existing code, how objects
interact with each other, and ensure any changes to the source
code are automatically reflected back into the model.
-- Improve code quality with 113 Audits: More Visual C# .NET
audits enable users to analyze code and models early in the
development process, and find potential quality problems when
they are less costly to address. This also facilitates the
long-term maintainability of an application.
-- Reduced application complexity: As an application grows in
complexity, it often becomes more problematic to make changes.
Refactoring offers developers intelligent automation features to
safely make changes to code and design without breaking the
application, and to propagate those changes throughout the
system's code.
-- Affordable price, available now. Borland is currently
offering the Borland Together Edition for Microsoft Visual
Studio .NET for $199 per seat. This price makes modeling more
accessible to Visual Basic .NET and Visual C# .NET developers
today.
For more information or to purchase Borland Together Edition
for Visual Studio .NET, please visit
http://www.borland.com/together/msvs/index.html.
About Borland
Borland Software Corporation (Nasdaq:BORL) is a world leader
in platform independent software development and deployment
solutions that are designed to accelerate the entire application
development lifecycle. By connecting managers, testers,
designers, developers, and implementers in real time, Borland
enables enterprises worldwide to define and sustain their
competitive advantage. For more information, visit:
http://www.borland.com or the Borland Developer Network at
http://bdn.borland.com.
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Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and is subject to the
safe harbors created by such laws. Forward-looking statements
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by existing or potential customers of new technologies and the
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Vendors Tout Tools,
Wares At Microsoft Tech Ed
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Gregg Keizer, TechWeb
2:58 PM EST Mon., May 24, 2004
Microsoft isn't the only vendor touting new products to the
more than 11,000 developers and IT professionals attending
its Tech Ed 2004 conference, which opened Monday in San
Diego.
A slew of smaller firms lined up to roll out new tools
for developers pounding the pavement at the conference and
trade show.
PKWare, for instance, unveiled software development kits
(SDKs) aimed at developers who want to add compression and
security to their Windows-based applications. Using the
various kits, commercial and in-house coders can add Zip
archiving functions to their applications; insert SecureZIP,
PKWare's combined security and compression technology, in
their software; and embed PKWare's data compression
algorithms within their applications.
@stake, meanwhile, used Tech-Ed to roll out SmartRisk
Analyzer, an automated analyzer that looks for and
identifies security vulnerabilities in custom-created code.
According to @stake, SmartRisk builds a model of the
application and runs hundreds of risk analysis scans to
identify and prioritize vulnerabilities, and can find flaws
ranging from insecure or improper use of standard libraries
to backdoors. The vulnerabilities are grouped by priority
and annotated in the source code for easy remediation. The
analyzer supports C and C++ in Windows and Solaris, and Java
J2EE.
Also on Monday, Borland released the second edition of
its Borland Together Edition for Microsoft Visual Studio
.Net, a modeling companion to Microsoft's development
environment that adds additional features, such as reverse
engineering diagramming to show how objects interact,
additional C# code audits, and modification tools that
insure changes are carried through the code without breaking
the application. Available now, Together Edition 2.0 sells
for $199 per seat.
Not all vendors targeted developers. Some, such as
Authentica and Lightspeed, put the Tech Ed forum to good use
by touting new products aimed at the general IT audience.
Digital rights supplier Authentica announced it would
support Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services as it
expands RMS capabilities in its own enterprise solutions.
Among the features Authentica plans to add to RMS in its
enterprise digital rights management offerings are mandatory
policy enforcement for e-mail and Office files, mapping of
rights policies to specific network folders for enforcement
by RMS, and integrating e-mail gateways from the likes of
Trend Micro, Tumbleweed, SurfControl and NetIQ so that those
solutions can scan e-mail and attachments, then apply RMS'
policies.
Lightspeed Systems launched its Total Traffic Control
5.0, the newest edition of its all-Windows network security
software. The updated software uses shared databases --
customers can opt out if they choose -- to detect and defend
against network intrusions, viruses, and spam, the company
said. Other additions to version 5.0 include file integrity
checking, client-side protection, and host- and
network-based intrusion prevention at the gateway. Total
Traffic Control sells for $10,000.
Business Objects unveiled its Crystal Enterprise Live
Office, which lets Microsoft Office embed live reports and
report components in the 2000, 2002 and 2003 editions of
Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook. The add-on to the San
Jose, Ca.-based business intelligence vendor's Crystal
Enterprise Professional offers a navigational bar within
Office's applications to access data in existing Crystal
reports from Word, Excel, PowerPoint, or Outlook, then allow
users to reuse pieces of the reports -- such as tables,
charts and graphics -- in their Office documents.
Computer Associates debuted an integrated suite called CA
Management Bundle for Microsoft Exchange that tackles a
variety of chores for mail server managers, including
performance tweaking, security, and backup. The new bundle
combines technologies from CA's Unicenter, eTrust, and
BrightStor lines to monitor Exchange server performance;
resolve pending problems; backup and restore documents,
folders, and mailboxes in Exchange 5.5, 2000 and 2003; and
display all Exchange servers' status.
And Winternals used Tech-Ed to launch Defrag Manager 3.0,
an enterprise-wide tool for defragging all or some of the
systems' drives on a corporate network. Administrators can
schedule defragmentation of a single system, a group of PCs,
an Active Directory Organizational Unit, or an entire
domain. Remote systems can be set to optimize their drives
at boot-up, and laptops can be forced to defrag on schedule
even if they're currently disconnected from the network.
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